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  • Mystic Password Prompt

    From GEARBOX@21:1/105 to ALL on Saturday, October 19, 2024 10:19:05
    Hello All,

    I am able to login fine when using SEXPOTS for my modem, but I am trying to use a Lantronix SCS400 terminal server and an odd thing happens. Mystic prompts for a username, which I enter fine and hit enter. Then it prompts for a password, but for it to login I must type the first letter of the password twice! It is waiting to digest a keystroke and it won't print an asterisk until the second key press. I have tried everything I can think of from editing prompts to changing flow control. Everything else seems to work except the password prompt which will confuse callers. I know this is a long-shot but I hope someone has some advice. Thanks!

    Scott

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  • From apam@21:4/158.1 to GEARBOX on Sunday, October 20, 2024 09:12:25
    Hello All,

    I am able to login fine when using SEXPOTS for my modem, but I am trying to use a Lantronix SCS400 terminal server and an odd thing happens. Mystic prompts for a username, which I enter fine and hit enter. Then it prompts for a password, but for it to login I must type the first letter of the password twice! It is waiting to digest a keystroke and it won't print an asterisk until the second key press. I have tried everything I can think of from editing prompts to changing flow control. Everything else seems to work except the password prompt which will confuse callers. I know this is a long-shot but I hope someone has some advice. Thanks!


    It sounds as though the bbs is expecting a second character to come in after the carriage return (telnet is supposed to use \r\n or in some cases \r\0) my guess is your terminal is only sending \r (carriage return) so mystic is waiting for the second character before taking the password.

    I am not familiar with SEXPOTS, but maybe there is a way to convert '\r' to '\r\n'?

    Andrew

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  • From GEARBOX@21:1/105 to apam on Sunday, October 20, 2024 06:55:45

    I am not familiar with SEXPOTS, but maybe there is a way to convert '\r' to '\r\n'?
    Andrew

    Thanks Andrew, this does sound like it could be the root cause. SEXPOTS works fine, it is when I try and use the terminal server that I see the issue. I appreciate the suggestion, I'll take a look!

    Scott

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Alien Signals BBS (21:1/105)
  • From GEARBOX@21:1/105 to ALL on Monday, October 28, 2024 06:59:15

    Hello All,

    I am still unable to figure out how to resolve my issue on node 2. If you call node 1 everything works fine. Node 2 however, uses an SCS400 terminal server by Lantronix, and when it prompts for the password you have to enter the first character of the password twice or it will fail. This is really frustrating as I want to use the SCS400 features. The carriage return and line feed has been mentioned, but I don't see a way to translate in the configuration. Any other thoughts?

    Thanks
    Scott

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Linux/64)
    * Origin: Alien Signals BBS (21:1/105)
  • From Digital Man@21:1/183 to apam on Wednesday, November 06, 2024 00:31:28
    Re: Mystic Password Prompt
    By: apam to GEARBOX on Sun Oct 20 2024 09:12 am

    Hello All,

    I am able to login fine when using SEXPOTS for my modem, but I am trying to use a Lantronix SCS400 terminal server and an odd thing happens. Mystic prompts for a username, which I enter fine and hit enter. Then it prompts for a password, but for it to login I must type the first letter of the password twice! It is waiting to digest a keystroke and it won't print an asterisk until the second key press. I have tried everything I can think of from editing prompts to changing flow control. Everything else seems to work except the password prompt which will confuse callers. I know this is a long-shot but I hope someone has some advice. Thanks!


    It sounds as though the bbs is expecting a second character to come in after the carriage return (telnet is supposed to use \r\n or in some cases \r\0) my guess is your terminal is only sending \r (carriage return) so mystic is waiting for the second character before taking the password.

    I am not familiar with SEXPOTS, but maybe there is a way to convert '\r' to '\r\n'?

    I just saw this and indeed SexPOTS should have expanded bare CRs received from the COM port to CRLF then sent to Telnet server (when not in Telnet Binary TX mdoe). This would have caused other issues too (like fine transfer failures). Fixed now in v2.1 of SexPOTS.
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